Faculty and Staff Information

Michael Myers

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas, 1998

Address:
Oklahoma State University
Department of Geography
Stillwater, OK 74078-4073

Phone: 405/744-6250
Fax: 405/744-5620

Email: myersmd@okstate.edu

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AREAS OF INTEREST

Cultural/Political Ecology

Geographic Theory

Sustainable Development

Historical

Agriculture

EDUCATION

            Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Geography, 1998

M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Geography, 1991

B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Anthropology, 1989

Certificate in Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, Department of Geography, 2000-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, Department of Geography,      1999-2000.

Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography, 1999 .

Instructor of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Department of Geography, 1995-1996.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Myers, Michael D. 2000. "Which Way to Till This Field? The Cultural Selection of Surface Form in the Rise and Fall of Cultivation Ridges in Northwestern Europe".  Journal of Cultural Geography. In Press.

Myers, Michael D., Dana Anthony, and David O. Brown. 1993. "Archaeological Survey of the Explorer Project, Southern Williamson County", Texas  Hicks & Company, Inc. Special Report, May. 

Myers, Michael D. 1993. "Cultural Resources", in Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed New Austin Airport at Bergstrom, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas. Vol. I. September. pp.15-18.

Myers, Michael D. 1993. "Historic, Architectural, and Archaeological Cultural Resources", in Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed New Austin Airport at Bergstrom, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas. Vol. I. September. pp. 80-92.

GRANTS RECEIVED

1994, Texas Archaeological Society, Small Grants Fund.  Stable Isotope Analysis at Mission San Juan de Capistrano, San Antonio, Texas.   Co-authored with Diane A. Cargill, Principal Investigator ($600).

 

1994, British Council Awards for Work in Northern Ireland.  Relationships Between Tillage Systems, Micro-Climates, and Diseases in the Potato Crop ($800).

 

1993, Geochron Laboratories, Krueger Enterprises, inc. Research Awards Program, Dietary Studies. Stable Isotope Analysis at Mission San Juan de Capistrano. Co-authored with Diane A. Cargill, Principal Investigator ($2,000)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association of American Geographers

Texas Archaeological Society

Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG Affiliate)

Geographic Information Systems Specialty Group (AAG Affiliate)

Human Rights Specialty Group (AAG Affiliate)

Historical Geography Specialty Group (AAG Affiliate)

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 

2001, Enhancing a Maximum/Actual Agricultural Production GIS using ArcIMS. ESRI User’s Conference, San Diego.

 

2000, Depopulation Before Description: Old World Disease and Agricultural Change in Eastern North America. Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, Pittsburgh.

 

1999, Leveling the Field:Agro-Ecological Dimensions of the Irish Potato Famine. Southwestern Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, San Marcos.

 

1993, The Relevance of Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) to the Altitudinal Zonation of Potato Production in the Andes; A   simulation of Climatically-Induced Blight Stress at Different Elevations, Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, Atlanta.

 

1992, Towards a Cultural Ecology of Crop Disease:  Agricultural   Practices and the Solanum-Phytophthora infestans Pathosystem, Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, San Diego.

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